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“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”

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Author:Pablo Picasso

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”

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Book:The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”

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Author:Beverly Sills

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

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Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.”

Art Building Perception Narrative Architect Frank Autobiography Publication Turning Points Captivated Picaresque

Author:Martin Filler

“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”

Source: Essays in Science

“Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

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Author:Iris Murdoch

“Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.”

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Author:Eugene S. Ferguson

“At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.”

Knows Men Firsts Art Science Common Knowledge Wise Perception Aim Invention Superiors Former Branches Latter Wiser Utility Inventor Recreation

Book:Pocket Aristotle

Source: Pocket Aristotle

“I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.”

Art Painting Perception Communicate

Author:Arshile Gorky

“My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is actually more real than what our eyes are able to see. They allow the viewers to be inspired by taking their own perception beyond their senses and their surroundings.”

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Author:Freydoon Rassouli

“In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.”

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Author:Chuck Close

“True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.”

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Book:What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)

Source: What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)

“A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.”

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Author:Jay Maisel

“For me, now, feminist art must show a consciousness of women's social and economic position in the world. I also believe it demonstrates forms and perceptions that are drawn from a sense of spiritual kinship between women.”

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Author:Suzanne Lacy

“Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.”

Art Challenges Levels Comfort Perception Contemporary Landscape Shakes Best Art

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.”

World Humans Art Mystery This World Perception

Book:When I Was A Child I Read Books

Source: When I Was A Child I Read Books

“Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.”

Art Perception Art Is Tools

Author:Arne Glimcher

“The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.”

Art Perception Neglected

Book:Visual Thinking

Source: Visual Thinking

“The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.”

Art Dream Eye Form Artist Stuff Brain Perception Function Communicate Seeds Brushes Worldview

Author:Arshile Gorky

“Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive.”

Art Perception Productive Martial Arts

Author:Imi Lichtenfeld

“Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.”

Needs Humans Art Perception Art Is Human Needs

Author:John Maeda

“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.”

Art Belief Creative Perception Accepted Innocence Liberated

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Organized perception is what art is all about.”

Art Perception Art Is Organized

Book:Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...

Source: Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...

“To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.”

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Book:The Common Reader

Source: The Common Reader

“Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.”

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Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.”

World Art Facts Perception Exceed

Book:Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music

Source: Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music

“Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.”

Men Humans Art Matter Feelings Pleasure Perception Art Is Human Life Reasonable Organs Amusement Solace

Book:WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...

Source: WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...